Wednesday October 7th Late Night Talk Show Recap

Daily Show: Obama delays meeting with Dalai Llama to not upset the Chinese. John Oliver discusses the issue. Wyatt Cenac interviews hip hop artists who discuss how the recession has affected them, but they are stupid problems. Wyatt speaks to one rapper’s posse to try and cut them loose. The guest is a man who bought a windmill in Africa.

Letterman: Louvre Museum opened a McDonalds so one of the statues is fat. Dave’s stand-in the old guy is backstage ready to go. Tuna can with a mounting peg allows you to put frozen heads on it. Nick Nolte’s mugshot is touched up giving him a haircut. Nobel Peace Prize Award is a mug with World’s Greatest Scientist on it. Things more fun than reading the Sarah Palin memoir: driving into a tree with a clip of it. Dave does a news headline for Action News. Video of Dave with his monkey baby, but it’s one of the male staffers with a baby hat. Another Action News headline. Top 10 signs the head of NASA is nuts. Vince Vaughn. Carey Mulligan. Rosanne Cash performs.

Conan: Elmo tells kids they should lie about being sick with swine flu to stay home from school and smoke cigarettes. Mayor Booker’s words edited together to say Newark is a toxic city, Conan is phenomenal and he was wrong. Conan goes outside to throw fake knives at Andy in front of the Universal tram and one of them hits his chest. Fake ad for a company selling weird animal fight DVDs. A staff member wants a day for black drinkers so he calls it happy black drinking day. Jason Bateman. Selena Gomez talks about growing up in Texas, working on Barney when she was young and preparing to take her driving written test. Toby Keith performs.

Fallon: Jimmy talks with Lenny Kravitz whose sitting in with the band then does a Bono impression. Letters back home from Questlove making fun of the other Roots members, a female writer talking about why she likes to write jokes about celebrities, an NBC page about his job and one from Jimmy. Animal Planet’s Zak George shows off some tricks with a dog. Chevy Chase talks about his time on SNL and Community. Eliza Dushku talks about her dogs, being from Boston and Dollhouse. Then she does a fighting routine with Jimmy including kicking him for real in the stomach by mistake and then mounting him on the ground. Lenny Kravitz performs.

Ferguson: Video of a satellite hitting the moon in the eye. Dear Aquaman with Tim Gunn. Rachel Bilson talks about filming her movie in New York and gets some advice from Craig on the best spots. Writer David Milch.

Last Call: From a golf company and their course. Juliette Lewis. Rollerderbier Rachel Piplica talks about the sport and her role in Whip It. The show’s old bandleader, Joe Firstman, performs. I kinda miss the old talkshow format now.